PALO ALTO, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 28, 2011 —
HP Enterprise Services has been chosen for a single-award
firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth
up to $2.5 billion over a four-year base period with two three-year
option periods by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).

HP (NYSE:
HPQ) will provide end-user desktop services and devices that
will increase NASA’s efficiency and allow its employees to more easily
collaborate in a secure computing environment.

As a part of NASA’s Agency Consolidated End-User Service (ACES) Program,
HP will modernize NASA’s entire end-user infrastructure by delivering a
full range of personal computing services and devices to more than
60,000 users. The modernization is expected to deliver significant
productivity gains and cost savings to NASA.

“NASA personnel use IT to support NASA’s core business, scientific,
research and computational activities,” said Michael Sweigart,
procurement officer, Shared Services Center, NASA. “HP will provide,
manage, secure and maintain these essential IT services for the agency.”

Under the ACES contract, HP will provide a variety of
Computing
Seat,
Tier
2/3 Service Desk Support and
Collaboration
Services to more cost-effectively manage NASA’s end-user
infrastructure at all NASA sites across the United States. Computing
seat and cellular seat services are designed with security and
collaboration capabilities to help the NASA team safely share
information.

“The ACES contract will help evolve NASA’s IT environment to a
centralized, adaptable IT infrastructure to enable economies of scale,
agency-wide visibility and improved management and security,” said
Dennis Stolkey, senior vice president and general manager, U.S. Public
Sector, HP Enterprise Services. “HP will build on our deep industry,
infrastructure and end-user services expertise to support this
significant work for the agency that is pioneering the future in space
exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”

HP will be teaming with numerous small businesses to meet NASA’s small
business participation guidelines and diverse mission needs. The
contract will be managed at the NASA Shared Services Center in Stennis,
Miss., and will serve all NASA centers and facilities.

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